Favorite power metal album.

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candlemass wrote:

You know none of these bands we're considered "power metal" at the time, back then it was just metal.

Actually, I remember hearing these bands described as Power Metal...that's what my friends and I called it anyway.

I will never, never, never, ever, ever, ever understand how Saxon, Accept, Judas Priest, Barren Cross, HammerFall and their likes can be labeled power metal. Theey are the very definition of heavy metal! Just like Iron Maiden, Dio, Scorpions etc.

Some that came to mind:
Grave Digger
Brainstorm
Enola G ay
Dream Evil
Hammerfall
Sinner
Primal Fear
Symphorce
Angel Dust

and if they still be considered power metal
Metal Church
Vicious Rumors
Nevermore
Recon
Vanize

and an old band I only recently discovered:
RapidFire (CA)'

I guess I consider bands like U.D.O., Accept, Judas Priest, Armored Saint to be traditional heavy metal. Early Grave Digger is traditional heavy metal. Even a band like Metalium seem more traditional heavy metal than power metal to me. Power metal in the 80's were those bands that rode a fence between heavy metal and thrash. Metal Church would be the perfect example. In the 80's Ultimatum would have been considered power metal. Modern power metal is much, much different.

ultmetal wrote:

Power metal in the 80's were those bands that rode a fence between heavy metal and thrash. Metal Church would be the perfect example.

BINGO! Tell him what's he's won, Johnny.

detuned wrote:

ultmetal wrote:

Power metal in the 80's were those bands that rode a fence between heavy metal and thrash. Metal Church would be the perfect example.

BINGO! Tell him what's he's won, Johnny.

That is why HammerFall isn't power metal. Nor do this description fit on Iron Maiden, Dio, Accept, Stratovarius, Gamma Ray, Helloween, Silent Force, Rob Rock, Barren Cross, Sacred Warrior or any of the other erroniously (sp?) labelled bands here. The original post asked for the original power metal bands. NOT the bands that is power metal today.

You don't think Barren Cross rode the fence of heavy metal and thrash?

My all time fav:

- Metal church: the dark (not sure we could call them power metal though )
- Helloween: the dark ride
- Savatage: dungeons are calling

NumbskullakaNazgul wrote:

You don't think Barren Cross rode the fence of heavy metal and thrash?

Not at all. They were more on the fence between heavy metal and hard rock. I don't recall every hearing a thrash influence in that band at all.

SpectreFate wrote:

NumbskullakaNazgul wrote:

You don't think Barren Cross rode the fence of heavy metal and thrash?

Not at all. They were more on the fence between heavy metal and hard rock. I don't recall every hearing a thrash influence in that band at all.

Agreed!

Nazgul: Name 1 song from BC that has even a remote thrash influence or feel?

Wouldn't "Walls Of Jericho" qualify? I haven't heard it since the 80's, but I seem to remember it being pretty thrashy.

detuned wrote:

Wouldn't "Walls Of Jericho" qualify? I haven't heard it since the 80's, but I seem to remember it being pretty thrashy.

Melodic speed metal, detuned.

SpectreFate wrote:

detuned wrote:

Wouldn't "Walls Of Jericho" qualify? I haven't heard it since the 80's, but I seem to remember it being pretty thrashy.

Melodic speed metal, detuned.

Bite my ass sub-genre nazi!

So I checked the almighty ult's site and he lists Barren Cross as power metal so talk about confusing. Ah well, just a bunch of opinions so everyone can get their undies in a bunch.

SpectreFate wrote:

detuned wrote:

Wouldn't "Walls Of Jericho" qualify? I haven't heard it since the 80's, but I seem to remember it being pretty thrashy.

Melodic speed metal, detuned.

Yup. I'd go as far as to ditch the melodic part too. hen Walls of Jericho was released, we called it speed metal, just like Agent Steel and their likes.

if new stuff is ok dragonforce-valley of the damned or reinxeed-the light

old stuff.......so i dont have an old power metal album BITE ME!!!
i do think iron maiden is power metal though

No traditional power metal? You may give up your metal card now. And i'll leave the biting to Spec, he likes it.

I repented using the P.Metal word on this forum a long time ago because it makes people so anal. But I'll try one more time?

Nasty Savage-s/t
Sanctuary- Refuge Denied
Anacrusis- Screams and Whispers

or probably too "euro" but-

Trance- Power Infusion
Oz- Fire In The Brain

Way too euro? Or too early?

Sinner-Danger Zone
Sortilege-s/t
Overdrive-Swords and Axes

for the record though, P.Metal in my world is a very large and inclusive genre that I insist on calling "Heavy Cheese".

If we're talking about classic power metal, then it'd have to be Metal Church's S/T, hands down. For newer stuff, I don't have a specific favorite above all, though a few top-draw albums come to mind:

Savage Circus - Dreamland Manor
Rhapsody - Dawn of Victory
Sonata Arctica - Silence
Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera

There are a few others I know I'm forgetting, but those are albums that I love. If you guys don't mind a bit of prog-power inclusion:

Theocracy - Mirror of Souls
Menahem - Angels and Shadows

Walls of jericho is one nasty album. Beats the hell out of modern "electronic" power metal bands.

Painkiller- Judas Priest
Anything from Rhapsody
Anything from Hammerfall , or Primal Fear



just top o my head.

SlaytanicPOWER wrote:

Anything from Hammerfall , or Primal Fear



just top o my head.

FREEDOM CALL!

7thSaviour wrote:

SlaytanicPOWER wrote:

Anything from Hammerfall , or Primal Fear



just top o my head.

7thSaviour wrote:

FREEDOM CALL!